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At TABLOO you can find everything that you need to draw and to paint with all kinds of materials and different types of paint: gouache, acrylics, oil colours, water colours and Ecoline. There are also pencils, pastels, inks, paper, palettes, canvases and painting easels. Brands of good quality like Royal Talens (Van Gogh / Rembrandt / Amsterdam), Daler-Rowney (System 3 / Georgian) and Lukas-Nerchau GmbH inspire every artists’ life in each step of his artistic journey.

Promo

On this page you get information about temporary promotions, special announcements or exclusive articles which you can find at TABLOO.

PROMO Christmas 2017

Here are some ideas for a nice Christmas present from TABLOO at -10% discount untill December 31th:

'Loving Vincent' is the world's first fully painted feature film. The film brings the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every of the 65 000 frames of the film is an oil painting hand-painted by a team of 125 professional oil painters with Van Gogh oil colours.

Workshops

TABLOO welcomes in 2018 again all drawing and painting lovers. Each course is organized in series of 5 or 6 lessons. We work in small groups, so it’s necessary to sign up previously. Are you interested? Then send an e-mail to info@tabloo.be or call the number 0032 (0)16/20 55 29. (only during the opening times of the shop)

This basic drawing course is meant for who wants to learn how to draw, or if you want to refresh or improve your drawing skills. We focus on basic techniques for drawing objects, still lifes, hands, faces, bodies,... We mostly use graphite pencil. (maximum 7 participants)

When:

Thursday evening from 19:00 till 22:00

22/02, 22/03, 26/04, 24/05 and 21/06/2018

Price:

70 € for the whole course

Materials:

- drawing pencils (HB or softer)

- kneadable eraser / rubber

- eventually a sketchbook if you have this

You can also buy a starter set during the first lesson!

Exhibitions

TABLOO doesn’t only offer materials to draw and to paint, but you can also watch creative work of other artists there. TABLOO’s own small gallery wants to be a little artistic paradise for all art lovers and a place where art is always present. Would you also like to exhibit your work at TABLOO? Then mail to info@tabloo.be or call number 016/20 55 29 for more information.

Vijayasri Kakkeroda

January – February 2018

For the start of 2018 TABLOO exchanges local talent for painting art from the far east. The Indian lady Vijayasri Kakkeroda is an accomplished artist who has been painting in various mediums such as oils and water colours. She has also been trained in techniques such as sand painting, knife painting and mural work.

Mrs Vijayasri is a mother of three children and has a grandson as well. Apart from being a home maker, she has been an ardent yoga enthusiast, singer and plays many instruments. She also enjoys gardening and cooking for her family.

She draws her inspiration from nature and most of her works include landscapes depicting scenic places across the world.

Liesbet Weckhuysen

November – December 2017

During the last exhibition period of the year, the painter Liesbet Weckhuysen from Haasrode brings a composition of light and colour to TABLOO. Because with light shining on people, you can reproduce their emotions in a portrait or represent the atmosphere of a place in a landscape or city view. In this way, Liesbet wants to touch the spectator, to affect him with beauty.

This fascination for the effect of light and her astonishment about life go back to Liesbet’s passion for natural sciences. Beside her daily job as lector of physics at UCLL (University Colleges Leuven-Limburg) where she is teaching since 2001, she is an active member of the association Kunstcollectief in Oud-Heverlee where she takes courses with Leon De Borger. She also had an artistic training at the Art Academy of Leuven before. Her work is figurative. She paints with acrylics on canvas and pays a lot of attention to perspective. The combination of warm colours, the heavy contrast between light and shadow and rough brush stroke give her paintings an impressionist look.

Liesbet takes part into an art tour at Oud-Heverlee since 2016. You can find more pictures and info about her work on her website: www.liesbetweckhuysen.be

Claudia Bava

September – October 2017

The start of a new academic year is marked at TABLOO by the art of linocut with an exhibition of Claudia Bava from Tienen. She cuts images of animals and daily objects out of a soft plate of linoleum and adds ink on top of it before making the print in several layers. This relief printing process is similar to the technique of woodcut and became famous since the beginning of the 20th century by expressionist graphic artists such as Henri Matisse and Wassily Kandinsky. Even Picasso has been experimenting with it. Since linocut is also popular in art education, Claudia adopted the technique during her studies in a secundary art school in Leuven (1991-1994), that was followed by a teacher training in plastic arts in Leuven (1994-1998). After many years of autonomous experimenting, she starts again with an academic course in ‘graphics’ to acquire also the art of etching.

Adrián Marmolejo

May – July 2017

For the summer season we let the sun come in TABLOO with an exhibition of five city views of Leuven from the Spanish watercolour artist Adrián Marmolejo (1989) from the southern Andalusia. He was there already part of a young painter’s group at the age of 16, won prices in several plain air contests and had his first solo exhibition in his birth place Málaga. Adrián is currently living and working in Leuven as recently graduated architect, where he combines his job with his artistic work. This Belgian influence goes back to his childhood when he started drawing and painting at the age of 7 as a pupil of the Belgian painter Annette Deletaille. She teached him the principles of perspective and composition, but also the spontaneity to paint directly from the evironment and to capture the mood of the moment. Adrián still applies this strong base in his detailed and well proportioned watercolour paintings, from whom he says by himself that ‘this technique takes the most out of his personality, because everything is visible and there is no comeback’. Adrián has also 3 years of experience as teacher of a course that explored fast drawing on location during his studies in Granada and he is part of the Andalusian watercolour Society.

Kunstroute Leuven 2017

On Sunday 30th of April, Monday 1st and Sunday 7th of May from 10:00 till 18:00 you are welcome at TABLOO for a drink and an exhibition of my own work. During this artistic tour of Kunstroute-Leuven 2017, also 33 other selected artists open their workplace to the public since 12 years. In this way, the visitors get an impression of their creatie universe. You can find more information about the participants and a tour map on www.kunstroute-leuven.be

“My work is modern and colourful. My greatest inspiration are surrealism and pop-art. Through vivid colours and motives, I want to surprise other people by creating dreamy images that make you feel happy, in a world where everything seems to be possible and where nothing looks complex. The lines don’t have to be straight, because nobody is perfect and neither is live. But I do like detail and preciseness, the patience and love of an artist for his work. Art has always been present in my thoughts and in my way of living. Painting is my greatest passion.”